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dw_maintenance2010-08-31 12:32 am
mark) wrote in dw_maintenance2010-08-31 12:32 am
Brief maintenance Tuesday night (PDT)
One of our servers suffered a hard drive failure a few days ago. Normally this doesn't matter and you'd never notice, but this happens to be our currently active load balancer. This is the machine that all of our traffic goes through.
We need to do a failover to the secondary load balancer, but doing that will cause the site to blip for a minute or two while things cycle and get back up to speed. But since this is a non-routine maintenance (we don't do failovers very often, this will be the first one in 2010) I am scheduling a maintenance window just in case things go sour. :-)
The window is scheduled for 9:00 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010. This is 0400 UTC on Wednesday morning for those of you who use a more civilized way of thinking about time.
As always, we will update this community and Twitter with updates as we go. Thanks!
We need to do a failover to the secondary load balancer, but doing that will cause the site to blip for a minute or two while things cycle and get back up to speed. But since this is a non-routine maintenance (we don't do failovers very often, this will be the first one in 2010) I am scheduling a maintenance window just in case things go sour. :-)
The window is scheduled for 9:00 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010. This is 0400 UTC on Wednesday morning for those of you who use a more civilized way of thinking about time.
As always, we will update this community and Twitter with updates as we go. Thanks!
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